FS: Southcoast Strings, Multiple Sets, Reentrant

Hey folks,

As a tribute to Dirk and to help Sheldra close out his estate, I have agreed to take on a chunk of the remaining string inventory and offer it up for sale as individual sets. What I have are all reentrant, "no wound" sets, as follows:

(I was also able to retrieve many of the charts for keys, scales, and tensions, but I understand many folks find them to be confusing. I will do a follow-up post below with recommended uses for each of the sets. Or if you have a specific uke in mind, I'll be happy to sort through that with you.)

The most recent retail prices ranged from $10.90 to $12.50. In order to keep this simple, I am offering these for $12 per set, regardless of gauge. First class US shipping will be a flat rate of $3 for 1-5 sets. 6 or more sets will be $7 for priority

NEW: Free shipping on all remaining Extra Light sets

For international orders, shipping will be at cost, so that may take some extra time to figure out. (As an example, first class to Australia is about $14, priority $35.)

Preferred payment will be through PayPal. If you want to do something else, send me a note and we can discuss it.

P.s. Full disclosure: my cost was not quite full retail, but my intent was not to hoard up these strings, but to get them out to the ukulele community. Best case, if all the sets get sold, I earn a few "free" sets for my own use.

Recommended Uses

I was able to recover Dirk's original charts from the Wayback Machine, but rather than repost those and try to explain them, what I'll do here is list the recommended key for a medium-tension setup for each uke size along with any recommended higher or lower tension options.

If this is still confusing, just send me an email of what you want to do, and I'll help you sort it out.

Yes, but not for normal C tuning. The SLM will give you a low tension D tuning - a whole step higher than "normal". The Light will give you a medium tension Eb. The Extra Light will give you the even higher F or G tuning.